Energy Efficiency Certificate Spain: The Spanish Government has approved a Royal Decree based on an European Union directive. Through this new Spanish law all properties for rent or for sale, from the 1^st of June 2013, will need an Energy Efficiency Certificate. This new law will affect all properties in Spain built before the year 2007,...

Important news regarding repossessions in Spain, the Spanish Law for Repossessions breaks with the European Regulation. A Sentence of the European Court of Justice (TUE) has declared on the 14Th of March 2013 that the Spanish Law for Repossessions breaks with the European Regulation for Customers Protection. This means that the repossession Law in Spain (Ejecución Hipotecaria) is incompatible...

New Residency regulation for EU Citizens and their families: Residence for more than 3 months, new requirements according to the Royal Decree Law 16/2012 and the modification of the article 7 of the Royal Decree 240/2012 (Orden PRE/1490/2012, de 9 de Julio). Basically the new residency regulation wants to guarantee the viability, in terms of cost, of the Spanish Public...

When you live as a resident in Spain for more than 2 years, perhaps you will have to change your driving license to a Spanish license. According to the new EU Law 2006/126/CE, if you live for more than two years as a resident in Spain your driving license renovation will be managed under the Spanish Law....

The Spanish Government has published last October the Law nº 7/2012 and the Royal Decree 1558/2012 for the Law development. According to this new law every resident in Spain must report to the Spanish Tax Authorities a declaration of Assets and Obligations Overseas. Every Tax Resident has the obligation to declare about estate, bank accounts, shares, bonds,...

4% IVA on new build The 4% IVA on the purchase of a new build property will be valid until the 31th of December 2012. After that it will raise to 10% of IVA on all new build.

As you will know, for all foreign home-owners in Spain it is compulsory to pay yearly Non resident taxes. The non resident taxes over the year 2011 are paid in 2012. As always we start calculating your non resident taxes from the month of September. Soon we will contact you with the amount of taxes to...

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